Posted on 05/14/2012 4:05:22 PM PDT by Nachum
“Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger got searched by a Transportation Security Administration employee....”
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This event only shows how totally ridiculous an agency the TSA really is.
LOL! Hold your head up! This is gonna be one rough season. I am fully supporting all of my FRiends at Free Republic. Times are hard to figure as we get older. Just know where you stand.
This is MY Country!
I posted it in post 16.
I wanted to change it to introduce a cowboy with the hippie, but was too lazy.
A huge number of VC were wiped out during the Tet Offensive. They believed they could cause a mass uprising, but they made a serious miscalculation. Unfortunately, this victory for the US and its allies was portrayed as a defeat by the US media. Hence, it became a huge propaganda victory for the Communists and weakened support for the war in Congress and by the American public.
My husband and I just went thru Dulles Sat., and had a full patdown AFTER the X-RAY crap!! It was Humiliating, PLUS we had just got off a plane and had undergone screening before!! I’m sure that the chick in a burka passed thru without either!!
Yo Dude, you worked through Tet? God Bless You and the Bros you lost.
Most lied about event of the century.
The commies shot their wad for real, the VC as a fighting force was DECIMATED. (The NVA had hoped for that outcome.) Our people were marvelous. Even our MPs, who WERE NOT infantry, took the fight to an extreme that scared the NVA and VC sh!tless.
Tet was a TOTAL FAILURE for the north, and at the end of it, we had Hanoi by the b@lls.
But, ask anyone here, and the Tet offensive was a total defeat FOR US!?!
Walter Cronkite was a pinko pig in disguise. Lefties cannot ever, ever, ever, admit that we succeeded beyond belief.
A sad time, and made all the more infuriating because of the lies and propaganda.
Peace man.
Thank you. I’ve always wondered.
Wow, he’s not aging well.
“Is there a difference between the NVA and the Viet Cong?”
NVA = North Vietnamese Army. They were regular, standing forces raised, trained, armed and supported from North Vietnam, albeit just about completely bankrolled and equipped by Communist patron states, the Soviets and Red China in particular.
Viet Cong were irregular forces, often raised and trained (to the extent they were) within South Vietnam. They were armed with whatever came to hand, and often masqueraded as neutral or friendly civilians.
The NVA were regulars, the Viet Cong were guerrillas, but certainly collaborated in the field, with the Viet Cong essentially already infiltrated into position.
Peace. I can only hope that the TSA agent who gave Henry the full monty pat down was a Vietnam vet or the son of one.
People like Soros and Kissinger must not have souls.
“Walter Cronkite was a pinko pig in disguise.”
Damn straight he was.
I have to disagree REALLY A LOT about a ConCon.
Too many people are far too ignorant of history to open up a ConCon.
Every group with a grudge will crawl out from under their rock. You will get a Soviet style paper that is meaningless.
How about this: reassert the ORIGINAL Constitution, and press charges against any and all who swore an oath to defend and uphold it, and then set about to destroy it!
There is absolutely, positively, NOTHING WRONG AT ALL with the original document.
In my opinion, the Constitution of the United States was written by Heaven itself, in an effort to circumvent Nimrod and his mad obsession to rebuild Babel.
I’ll stop now.
No problem. Kissinger has no balls. He gave them to the North Vietnamese in Jan. 1973 and never looked back.
Secretary Kissinger is the public face of the Rockefeller organization, thus he is MUCH more powerful than Mr. Soros.
They’re all pure evil.
>>I’ll admit that I never trusted the guy but I never wanted him probed.<<
“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” — Henry Kissinger
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The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component.
Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it’s perceptions. “
Henry Kissinger
World Affairs Council Press Conference,
Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel,
April 19th 1994.
More information on the VC and PAVN. First, see the two books by Douglas Pike on “The Viet Cong” and “The PAVN: Peoples Army of Vietnam Nam”.
Then see Prof. Robert Turner’s massive tome on the history of the Communist Party of Indochina and Ho Chi Minh, a Hoover Institution book.
The VC was the armed arm of the NLF (National Liberation Front), Hanoi’s political front group in South Vietnam, set up in 1961 to wage a “war of liberation” and unification with the North. The VC were native southern communists and a few nationalists (who didn’t last long). They were trained in So. Vietnam, No. Vietnam, and Cambodia (Parrot’s Beak and Fish Hook areas along the SVN border).
After the devastating losses of Tet 68, the Second Spring Offensive 68, the Spring Offensive 69, and the Fall Offensive 69 (timed to coincide with the Anti-Vietnam protests of New Mobe), the VC as a fighting force was permanently crippled. Hanoi began to send their regular PAVN forces to join and rebuild VC units to the point that they often were more than 80% of those troops.
VC defections hit an all-time high between 1968-70, well over 200,000 “Chieu Hoi” or “Hoi Chans” (i.e. “ralliers). I interviewed several in SVN in the Fall, 1970, as well as senior PAVN officers. They knew that Hanoi was losing the war which is why they defected at great risk to themselves.
In Cambodia, some VC acted as guides for PAVN regular forces (1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th & 9th Divisions, along with the 6th Division in 1970) Again I interviewed PAVN POWS in Cambodia from the 6th Division. These kids didn’t even know what country they had fought in and that they were captured by Cambodian forces, not Americans.
The VC Infrastructre, a vast and skilled underground political system, began to crack apart after Tet, when they lost tens of thousands of troops and operatives who had surfaced then, only to be wiped out by the very people whom they had come to “liberate”. After that, more VCI agents were captured, their network and locations disrupted or destroyed. This in turn, led to more defections. There is a highly critical book about our efforts to destroy the VCI (Oren DeForest, “Slow Burn”) but it is worth reading because he described how the VCI worked, and how he had developed some very successful methods to dismantle it.
Others disagree with some of what DeForest wrote, but I think both of them agreed that the VCI was in serious trouble and had lost tremendous underground political strength, esp. in the Mekong Delta, their stronghold.
Kissinger didn’t end the war in Vietnam. This is some CBS ignoramous regurgitating the leftist and administration line on the war in Jan. 1973. The No. Vietnamese continued the war for two more years, killing hundreds of thousands of SVN in the process, before they conquered a literally disarmed ARVN/VNAF (thanks, in part, to the Hanoi Lobby of Jane Fonda/Tom Hayden, Don Luce, and Tom Harkin, as well as the liberal media who refused to tell the truth about No. Vietnamese aggression, along with editorials which were often worst than the news stories).
Very soon after the fall of So. Vietnam, the NLF/VC began to be dismantled by Hanoi (the Lao Dong Party), and soon they were not a factor in Communist Vietnam’s dictatorship. Some VC leaders even defected to the US and told Congress, in 1977, how they had been betrayed by Ho and Hanoi (Ho died in 1969 but his policies, under Le Duan, etc. continued on). Ho was great at betraying non-communist nationalists to the French and Japanese. Well worth reading about in Turner’s book.
I’m glad that some of the FR posters know what really happened in Vietnam and are sharing it with you. PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO YOUR FRIENDS, KIDS, COLLEAGUES and even in letters to the editor, on talk radio shows, etc.
Don’t let the Hanoi Lobby and the liberal media get away with their disinformation, misinformation, and ignorance. Too much of that shows up in our schools and you know how uniformed or misinformed our children are today.
This discussion is one reason why FR must survive. It is a repository of the truth and of history.
"Carter, Ford, Kissinger, a rabbi and a hippie were flying in a small plane. The plane developed engine trouble and it became clear that a crash was inevitable. They decided to bail out, but there were only four parachutes. Carter said, "I'm the President and the country needs me, so I've got to have one of the parachutes." He grabbed a parachute and jumped out. Ford said, "I'm the ex-President and he needs me to advise him." He took a parachute and jumped out. Then Kissinger said, "I'm the smartest man in the world so I've got to have a parachute." And he took a parachute and jumped out. The rabbi turned to the hippie and said, "Son, I'm an old man. I've lived my life. You take the last parachute." And the hippie said, "Don't sweat it, man. The smartest man in the world just jumped with my backpack.""
something tells me chris hitchens got three wishes upon entering the afterlife.
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